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Actually, this is not at all about a minor thing. And on the other hand, it is. I’m talking about the 7th semester course I’m going to do at Utrecht University at the Department of Information and Computer Sciences: “Minor Informatica voor HU”. This is a minor designed especially for IT students at Hogeschool Utrecht, and I happen to be such a student.

After a while at the HULK I think I have learned a lot about the Linux OS and its inner workings. I found out how the Linux Standard Base is organised, how C, C++, Perl, Python, PHP and bash programs (and some more) all work together to build a fine Linux based system. But in the time to come, I would learn more about working with Linux, the administrative part. That doesn’t interest me as much as writing some cool C programs, so I have decided to expand my knowledge in Computer Science in another way.

Out of eight courses, I choose four of ‘em:
- Concrete math
- Distributed programming
- Algorithm (design)
- Logic and Set Theory

I’m very excited about this course, and even more because two of my classmates are also taking this minor, so we learn all this coolness together! Tomorrow, I’m going to apply for the minor, so as of September this year I will be busy doing whatever it is these courses provide me with

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Busy, busy, busy was the theme of my daily life the last few weeks. And actually, I think that it will be like that until school is finished in the summer break. But, there is some news (and that’s why I am writing this post. Surprise, huh?). The logbook I wrote about is finally ready for it’s first use, and will get some really cool features in the near future, like Ldap authentication and after that maybe also authorization.

The HUbuntu project started last week (actually, it hasn’t gotten off it’s feet for a few weeks), and at the moment we are thinking about how to implement easy access to our own repository. In this repository students will be able to find all the software they need for the courses given at the HU, and we want to make that process really easy for them. We already came up with the principal of meta-packages, and today I did some research in that area. The idea is to create a meta-package for each course and determine the right dependencies for that course. I think that a lot of work has to be done, but the general idea is finished. Yay, isn’t that great?

I also made some progress with my or-mapping. For mattijs’ peace I will post a link to the Object class, just as he asked me to: link. It is password-protected, but if you ask nicely, I will provide you with an account. If you create an Object containing an array of Objects in it, the intermediate tables that are needed are now automagically created, but I still have to build that for arrays of primitive PHP types.

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